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Researchers from Meta, University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California San Diego recently open-sourced MEGALODON, a large language model (LLM) with an unlim

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Dear friends, Many parents strive mightily to get their children into high achieving high schools. A high achieving school (or HAS) is defined as one where students score high on standardized tests a

Apple’s WWDC 2024 started today. In this post, I quickly recap my thoughts on what this all means for Apple’s AI strategy in simple terms, and why you should care. In a nutshell, what I too

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I am working with the IoT operating system RIOT-OS and have been developing some cryptography features for it. For my master thesis I'm exploring Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) for RIOT and how